Substitute for tiling.



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SUBSTITUTE POR TILING.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T.13, 1903.

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UNTTEE STATES Patented April 19, 1904.

EMILE REIZENSTEIN, OF VVALTHAM, lMASSACHUSETTS SUBSTITUTE FOR TILING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,840, dated April 19, 1904.

i Application filed October 13, 1903. Serial No. 176,837. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, EMILE REIZENSTEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waltham, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented new and usefulv Improvements in Substitutes for Tiling, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of imitation tiling for bath-rooms, kitchens, &c., composed of a metal or other sheet enameled or otherwise surfaced to represent tiles, bricks, or the like, thc same being so surfaced as to render practically invisible the joints or seams between them when they are placed on a wall or elsewhere.

Figure l represents two sheets of metal embodying my invention nearly in juxtaposition. Fig. 2 represents in like position two of the sheets heretofore used. Figs. 3 and 4 represent, respectively, the new and the old forms of sheets with their edges abutted.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A and B designate, respectively, representations of larger and smaller bricks or tiles separated by vertical and horizontal lines C and D, represented on the sheet of metal E.

F designates representations of bricks separated by lines Gr, as represented on the sheet H of the former art.

rIhe old style of tiles or bricks is shown as of equal size and as laid in the well-known stretcher courses, so that all the parallelograms formed by the lines Cr are of equal size and so disposed that the middle of each is over the juncture of the two below. At the edge of each sheet H there will necessarily be represented alternate whole and cut bricks. Hence the joint between the sheets will be very conspicuous, as shown in Fig. 4..

In my device the entire sheet F represents tiles or bricks laid in Flemish bond, or with alternate complete large and small tiles A and B in each course. In this way the alternate vertical lines C will be continuous. As the sheet E is so surfaced as to have one of these continuous series ot' lines C at each of its edges, the sheets may be so joined that their line of unison will be indistinguishable, as shown in Fig. 3.

It is evident that forms or relative sizes of tiles, bricks, or the like other than those shown may be represented on a metal or other sheet or base without departing from my invention and that the tiles may be shown differently colored or otherwise ornamented.

While I ordinarily prefer to represent by well-known lines C and D the cement or mortar in which the tiles or bricks are laid, it is clear that such lines may be minified' or omitted.V

By the term tile as used in the claims it is obvious that l include bricks or any usual desirable panel.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. VImitation tiling consisting of a sheet on which is represented a plurality of tiles of at least two different sizes, the representation of such larger and smaller tiles being alternate at the edges of said sheet, whereby the abutting line of contiguous sheets is rendered less distinguishable.

2. Imitation tiling consisting of a sheet on' lines so arranged that certain of said lines crossing the course-lines will be continuous, whereby the abutting line of contlguous sheets is rendered less distinguishable.

EMILE REIZENSTEIN.

Witnesses:

' E. F. REED,

GEO. G. BLAKE. 

